Killing mackenzie, and then he planned the killing of mackenzie, a thoroughly premeditated murder. that he knew that he was going to murder mckenzie before she even touched down at the airport he selected her as his victim, right? right. was there any explanation at all of what is motivation was to do it? none, he never offered any reasoning as to why. or even how. aj also pleaded guilty to sexually abusing his first victim. he was sentenced to life without parole. one more thing, said the detectives, he was active on the seeking arrangements site right up until he was arrested. even after we made contact with him, he was still on that page, still trying to get a date. we don t know why, some selfish jerk used his position on a dating website to somehow ensnare this bright, pretty woman, and for what? you look at his profile page, he comes across as a gentleman,
He told detectives that they never met in person. cell phone tracking data placed him at the same park and at the same time that mckenzie vanished. now investigators were closing in on their suspect, but were they any closer to answering the crucial question, where was mackenzie? here is keith morrison with the conclusion of the waiting car. police looking for mackenzie lueck heard it is there being story. from a neighbor who said aj had sent a suspicious fire. the neighbor had found debris in her backyard. so they looked in aj s backyard and found something else disturbing, a freshly dug patch of soil. they called in a cadaver dog, which gave the unmistakable evidence, human remains. aj calmly watched it all from his driveway was taken into
Before she went missing. here s keith morrison with the waiting car. it was a few weeks before mckenzie vanished, a meeting at a bar, with this man rob joseph. she seemed like a very bright, bubbly girl friendly. they talked for more than an hour said robbed or she did while he listened. rob is an ex-cop, which of course he told her. if you mention you re an ex cop in you re a pi, everybody all of a sudden wants to tell you they re dark secrets or risky behaviors. it s not how people react, really? yeah. you would be surprised. people just want to tell you things that you don t want to hear. anyway. he only saw mackenzie that one time, he said. didn t get her phone number and
We had on her phone. on the morning of saturday june 22nd, six days after mckenzie went missing, detectives tracked down mckenzie s lyft driver. he says there wasn t a lot of conversation going on in the car, he did recall her being on her phone, but he didn t know who she was talking to. was he fully cooperative? definitely. he did. he didn t seem like he had anything to do like this at all. because he had an alibi, a very good one, actually. as soon as he dropped mackenzie off, surveillance footage at a nearby intersection captured him leaving to pick up another fare, the daytime and location all confirmed by the tracking software on his lyft apps. and he continue that throughout the night, and so you could eliminate him pretty easily based on the fact that he was elsewhere? very quickly, yes.
He figured if mckenzie was missing, that just might have something to do with it. i went straight home got on the computer and got on to seeking arrangement and within an hour, two hours i had found her profile. there she was, beach baby 96. what was interesting about her profile is that it was very authentic and honest. she wasn t really hiding who she was, she was pretty specific about 23-year-old, grad student studying kinesiology, california girl. likes to drink wine, likes to go out, likes to travel, looking for somebody to do that with. a little bit more pg than some of them, maybe? yeah. soon as he founded he sent a screen grab of mackenzie s profile to the salt lake city police department. this was definitely another avenue that we had to look at, and track down anybody who might have been in contact with her. mckenzie appeared had compartmentalized information about her life. the plane ticket to los angeles, for instance had been paid for by man she had met